Wednesday, June 20, 2007

slate is such a copy cat

slate is calling the anti-pot ad that i blogged about AGES ago the "best anti-pot ad, ever"
The lovely, doodle-y animation (by artist Souther Salazar) helps sidestep most of the pitfalls that endanger any work aimed at teens. (The "that kid's not me, he's wearing the wrong kind of T-shirt" problem, as described by Robinson and Fogarty.) Similarly, casting an alien as the guy who sweeps the girl off her feet, while the stoner feebly looks on, eliminates the need to decide what sort of person the girl would be likely to find more appealing than a pot user. Having her new suitor be a drug-free preppie (or jock, or musician, or whatever) would be fraught with all kinds of peril. Not so with an alien—because aliens are always cool.
i feel slightly robbed. no credit? really slate?

1 Comments:

Blogger Mike Forster said...

Now you know how it feels. Ive been robbed by cnn and deadspin.com. It's a rite of passage for any successful blogger.

6/21/2007 10:46 AM  

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